keehotee
-
Posts
3043 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Posts posted by keehotee
-
-
As we already know, the central reservation was specifically designed to protect the public. It is legal, sane and fun to loiter twixt 4 lanes of fast moving traffic and 'play a game'.
Apologies if I've missed the irony in your post - but no, it's not legal.
When is it ever going to sink in - rights of way do NOT give anyone the right to play, picnic, sing songs or hide tupperware. You have the right to "pass and repass", nothing more. As this central reservation only exists as a bridging point on a right of way, the only activity permitted without specific permission of the landowner is to pass and repass!
-
For cache owners, I think GS need to look at it.
As GS are keeping a close eye on owners of Virtual caches, to make sure they are checking for bogus finds on the Grandfathered caches... The lack of a recent 'logged in' date could put the virtual cache at risk of being Archived.
The lack of a "Logged in" date visible to others on a persons profile on the website does not necessarily mean that GS doesn't have a record of when that person logged in by other means...
-
I would just like to add here that the process for getting approval for placing a cache on an 'SSSI' is quite straightforward.
It is necessary fist to get permission for placement from the 'landowner'. Next send an email to the local Natural England office enclosing the landowner permission email. Unless there are really special circumstances with regard to the location then NE will respond positively.
The NE response will be either that 'you have permission from the landowner therefore specific permission from Natural England is not required for this location' or they will send a formal-looking permission document addressed to the landowner and copied to the cacher.
The next step is simply to copy the text of these permissions into a 'Reviewer Note' and submit the cache for review. Sometimes if the emails are lengthy it maybe necessary to split into two or more 'Reviewer Notes' as there is a word limit.
Only the Landowner's permission is required, not necessarily NE. This has been discussed before here.
...and not even the landowner's permission in some cases.
There's a very popular series not a million miles from us - seemingly partly located on a couple of SSSIs (and in areas protected for other reasons too) - which were permitted with permission from no-one but a volunteer local interest group with no links to the site's owners at all
-
Most All ground in the UK is owned or managed by someone.
Corrected that for you
-
Reviewers no doubt have access to hundreds if not thousands of Geocaching accounts. A certain percentage of these have to be young people. Therefore should Reviewers having this access, be CRB checked by law?(or perhaps they are?)
I don't see that this is any different in that regard to say, working in the accounts department at Toys R Us, or on the switchboard for Blue peter.
Unless there's unsupervised direct contact with children or other vulnerable individuals, why would there be any need for a CRB check?
Incidentally, I'm not aware of any legal requirement for an employer to insist on a CRB check other than in education.
-
It might be different in your part of the world, but in the UK we have freedom to walk around and even hang about, as long as it's a public area. This cache is at a stile leading from a public road to a public footpath and isn't even outside the cottage. Check the map. There are no other houses nearby.
Then the answer seems so simple.
As there's no public property in the UK - only publically accessible property - either the local authority (if the cache is on the road) or the landowner whose land the footpath crosses must have given permission for the cache to be there.
All the CO needs to do is publish details of that permission on the cache page, and any future finders getting hassle from the locals will have the evidence to wave at them!
-
The whole point of LQ was to showcase the best locations a county may have to offer,
Really?
Then might I respectfully request that you check on a few of the locations.....
-
Forums are easier to search for a specific item than FB. Forums are better for holding long term info such as the help sections as well.
You're ignoring the fact that Google (and other search engines) offers a far better search facility than this forum ever has - and will bring up posts on many more forums than this, FB and the GAGB.....
-
...... we're hoping Groundspeak will take the concept, which we first profered in September 2012, forward.
Simply Who, perchance???
-
Have numbers been to the benefit or detrimental to this hobby?
Definitely to the detriment. But have grown tired of spouting it on here.
As for events, no I don't think bigger is better.
Agreed. There's an event this weekend that's grown beyond all recognition - and not for the better (IMO)
We just have to accept that the majority of UK cachers want something different to the game we used to play.
They want big numbers. They want to go out for a day and come home to log a long series - regardless of where, how,or why they visited the caches.
And they want big events where they don't have to think about entertaining themselves. It's ironic that the small groups that used to attend camping events together still stay in the same groups now the events have grown....so what, exactly, is the appeal of an event getting so big that you don't stand a hope of - or even want to - meet more than a quarter of the attendees?
-
You only have to look at the hysteria of backpacks on the underground immeadietly after 7/7 to know everyone's awareness will be heightened.
So presumably it's only a matter of time before we're reading in the papers about backpacks being banned on the tube for the duration of the Games?
-
The message that I received from Groundspeak relating to some caches that I have in the centre of Newcastle requested that they should be disabled and removed.
Just being pedantic....Groundspeak are a listing site.They have every right and power to disable/delist a cache's online details for whatever reason - but no power or right to ask for the physical cache to be removed. That remains the property of the cache owner. Surely asking for it to be removed is outside GS's remit? If ACPO insisted on them being removed, shouldn't they have contacted the cache owners directly??
-
Whoops - didn't realise Richard had changed his mind.....
OK - which one thing are the following considered to have in common?
Oxygen
carbon
hydrogen
nitrogen
phosphorus
sulphur
Single letter chemical symbols ?
Just had another thought, after reading an article on "The Register" today which debunked a theory about microbes which could survive in the presence Arsenic, that article mentioned something about Phosphorus being essential to sustain life, I'm pretty sure that's true of the first 4 as well, so I'll go with :-
"These are all essential to sustain life"
Ding!
They're the six elements currently deemed essential to support life as we know it......
-
Whoops - didn't realise Richard had changed his mind.....
OK - which one thing are the following considered to have in common?
Oxygen
carbon
hydrogen
nitrogen
phosphorus
sulphur
-
Staying with a Bowie them, name two members of the 'Spiders From Mars'?
Mike Garson, Trev Boulder
-
In the UK in 2012, I'd be surprised, the weather hasn't been anywhere near warm enough.
There aren't a lot of places you can't grow modern "varieties" in the UK nowadays.....
12 plants isn't a lot though, is it. Definitely not a professional grow. Sounds like somebody's personal plants. I'd just walk on by TBH
-
Greece?
Ding!
-
Whoop whoop
Only one nation has competed in every modern summer Olympic games. Which one?
-
I worked out it was a trick question after guessing the Royal Engineers.
Some of the early FA cup finals were held at The Oval which, coincidentally, is where I've just spent the day watching England beat the West Indies.
The question: who owns The Oval?
Mark
It's part of the Duchy of Cornwall....so no person owns it.(so ultimately the crown, I suppose)
Edited to add - Prince Charles doesn't own the property in the duchy - but he gets any income from it)
-
In theory it would be illegal as the OS maps are copyright....although I doubt they would worry too much if it's just you doing it!
I didn't think copyright prevented you from making copies for your own personal use?
7. Acts that do not infringe copyright“Fair dealing” is a term used to describe acts which are permitted to a
certain degree (normally copies of parts of a work) without infringing
copyright, these acts are:
i. Private and research study purposes.
...
viii. Producing a back up copy for personal use of a computer
program.
From http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/ukcs/docs/edupack.pdf
-
Marilyn Monroe was her stage name, but what was the name registered on her birth certificate?
Norma Jean ....something(?) - according to Elton John
-
Or you could do it the easy way.....
Well documented on this forum, and been going on since Garmin introduced custom maps a few years ago I believe
-
There are already a couple of listing sites (1 in the UK, and 1 in the USA that I know of) specialising in urbex/not-quite-legal/extreme cache hides. Give it a little time and I'm sure you'll get an invite
I'm not so sure about this "secret" caching/urbex society. I'm a member of an urbex community and I've never heard about any related caching being done.
LOL
It's not a "society". It's a listing site, just like Groundspeak (although much smaller, and closed).
It lists caches that wouldn't necessarily be allowed here - as well as cross listing caches found here and on other listing sites.
I can't believe you've never come across any urbex/caching crossover....
-
Spotting the opportunity to be sneaky
1425 days from today (plus or minus a few hours).
DING..!!!!
But I would have accepted it in weeks or months
Liability Insurance and cache placement
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted
Liability will depend upon who maintains the path..if the local council is ultimately reponsible for keeping it clear, the same insurances would apply as to any other council property...